Keeping Secrets
Created and performed by Jim Vetter
Secrets are all around us—secrets that can be powerful in both positive and destructive ways.
Keeping Secrets is an engaging, moving, and hopeful one-person show that explores the links between what magicians do and what child sexual abusers do. Based on actual events in the Boston area from the 1970s to today, this unusual performance combines acting, visuals, and a magic trick or two. The show explores how traumatic experiences can be transformed into positive action.
Writer and performer Jim Vetter spent over 20 years performing internationally as a professional magician, mime, and actor before shifting his career to focus on improving the lives of all young people socially and emotionally. Jim’s performing career took him from street performing in Harvard Square to Fisherman’s Wharf; to night clubs in Miami and Quito, Ecuador; to collaborating with author George Plympton to creating a piece performed at Harvard Stadium; to representing the United States at the Celebration ‘90 Gay Games Cultural festival in Vancouver. Keeping Secrets represents Jim’s triumphant return to performing, with the most personally meaningful show in his career.
Preview audiences call Keeping Secrets:
“Amazing” “Riveting” “Raw” “Funny” “Hopeful” “Should be on Netflix”